Louis Nowra
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Louis Nowra (12 December 1950 - ) is one of Australia's most acclaimed and prolific writers. Playwright, screenwriter and librettist, Nowra is famous for such plays as Così, Byzantine Flowers, Summer of the Aliens, Radiance, and The Golden Age. He has recently completed a major trilogy for Griffin Theatre Company: The Woman with Dog's Eyes, The Marvellous Boy and The Emperor of Sydney.
Born the 12 December 1950, in Melbourne, Australia, Louis Nowra studied at Melbourne's La Trobe University without earning a degree. He worked several jobs and lived an itinerant lifestyle until the mid-1970s when his plays began to attract attention.
His non-fiction works include The Cheated (Angus & Robertson, Australia, 1979) and Warne's World (Duffy & Snellgrove, Australia, 2002). He has also written four novels: The Misery of Beauty (Angus & Robertson, Australia, 1976), Palu (Picador, Australia, 1987), Red Nights (Picador, Australia, 1997), Abaza (Picador, Australia, 2001) and two memoirs, The Twelfth of Never (Picador, Australia, 1999) and Shooting the Moon (Picador, Australia, 2004). In March 2007, he published a controversial book on violence in Aboriginal communities, Bad Dreaming (Pluto Press, Australia 2007).
Other credits include screenwriter for Map of the Human Heart (1992), The Matchmaker (1997), Cosi (1997), K-19: The Widowmaker (2002), and Heaven's Burning, Twisted Tales: Directly From My Heart to You (1996).
His radio plays include Albert Names Edward, The Song Room and The Widows.
Nowra has been studied extensively in Veronica Kelly's work The Theatre of Louis Nowra.
He currently resides in Sydney, Australia with his wife, author Mandy Sayer.
